To earth courtesy of nasa tv. Nasasng to you from Johnson Space center. Bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 million miles an orbiting earth over 1024 times. As of today, our crew is home. 45 years and nine days after the last american splashed down on earth. Our two favorite space dads splashed down on the coast of pensacola thus concluding our first lunch America Mission first lunch America Mission. It marks the first return of american spacecraft from the International Space station. To discuss the mission and talk are ourunch america brief first. First, nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. President and ceo of spacex. Steve stich, commercial program manager. The International Space Station Program manager and the entire crew of spacex crew one. Mike hopkins, victor glover, Shayna Walker who are quarantined together and speaking to us today. We will start with opening remarks and take questions from reporters who have dia
Johnson space center. S bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this historic mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, International Space Station Program manager and end fire crews . Astronautses, who are together and speaking us to today. So well start with
Star1 if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Reporter hello, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me pretty well up there. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint, we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supplies back to earth.
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A few hours after the talking and welcoming, nasa officials led a briefing from the Johnson Space center in houston. Good afternoon and welcome to the Johnson Space center. Thank you for joining us for this post talking news briefing of the nasa spacex mission. Astronautss ago the arrived at the International Space station aboard the dragon. Today we will learn more about the mission. With us is nasa administrator jimeitel stein bridlestein. The Program Director of the commercial crew program. The International Space station Program Director, deputy Program Director. And the nasa astronaut. Thank you so much to all of you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks, and then we will go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. James i just want to say, congratulations to the nasa team and to the space x team, and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring